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Planned upgrade for rail routes (aka Outer Circle Line, London)
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:54:32 GMT, Jack Taylor wrote:
So they're getting 24 3-car Electrostars for the North London Railway, replacing 23 3-car 313s and 3 3-car 508s? That's not much of a capacity upgrade - some might even call it the opposite. That was my immediate thought. It's all very wooly and unclear. It certainly looks as if it's replacement on like-for-like basis *unless* by North London Railway they mean the North London Line (Richmond to Stratford) on its own, releasing the current 313s to strengthen Euston to Watford and West London Line services or increase frequency? The plans are for the current (self-contained) WLL service to be replaced with through running from the NLL (Stratford to Clapham Junction), so it wouldn't be possible to use a different type of stock just for the WLL. The Euston to Watford service will be axed completely, but this only uses something like 4 of the 23 313 units. It seems apparent to me from the figures that the proposed doubling of the frequency on the WLL and NLL (and the reopening of the Queens Park - Camden Road route) will be achieved simply by running the 376s in addition to the 313s, rather than the 376s replacing the 313s. The options in the contract would then allow the 313s to be replaced at a later date with a subsequent build of 376s. |
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